CORRECTED FY98 BUDGET PROPOSAL

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

CORRECTED FY98 CLEANUP BUDGET FIGURES

I'm still awaiting a complete fiscal year 1998 budget proposal summary 
from the Defense Department Environmental Security office, but from the 
President's budget I have enough to correct the information I provided 
in a previous posting. As far as I can tell, the Base Realignment and 
Closure (BRAC) Enviromental Restoration ceiling total remains far below 
the active/former base cleanup acccounts.

BRAC Environmental Restoration - Proposed FY1998 Ceiling

Round II $228,789,000
Round III $315,967,000
Round IV $200,841,000

Total $745,597,000

Meanwhile, Defense Environmental Alert (February 12, 1997) reports that 
the total FY98 budget proposal for the "accounts formerly known as 
DERA" is $1,264,000,000, $51 million less than the final appropriation 
in FY97.

Lenny Siegel